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tated by drawing the shoulder-bone of a moose against the dry bark of a 
young tree, and any male that may be in the neighborhood advances to an¬ 
swer the challenge of the supposed rival. 
‘Tire hunting,” that is, using a torch at night, is an unsportsmanlike 
method of hunting. The brilliant light seems to fascinate the animal, and 
it will readily approach within range of the rifle. The torch placed in the 
bow of a canoe is also used as a lure on a lake or a river, but is attended with 
BULL ELK WHICH HAS SHED ITS ANTLERS. 
considerable danger, as a wounded or enraged moose will not unfrequently 
upset the canoe. 
A favorite mode of moose-hunting, when the snow lay very deep on the 
ground, was by running them down in snow-shoes. Accidents were, how¬ 
ever, frequent in this kind of hunting, more especially during the spring, 
when the snow is covered with a thin crust. At such times, if the hunter 
happened incautiously to run too near the moose, the animal would turn 
suddenly, and leaping upon its pursuer trample him under foot. In British 
America the Indians during the winter were accustomed in deep snow to 
make a kind of fence of three poles, tied equidistant from each other, a little 
